soil

As a main life element, carbon plays important role in the matter cycling in soil-plant system.

Adobe is soil that contains at least 40% clay. In its purest form, clay can be shaped and stretched and used to make objects.

Treated sludge is often stored in ponds where the water eventually evaporates, leaving behind a dried, red, clay-like soil.

The soil stores moisture during cooler weather. But most of that moisture is gone by the middle or end of the hottest months of the year.

As long as the love is in the heart, no matter how sterile soil, the sturdiest trees can grow up in it.

New Jersey gained its nickname of the "Garden State" in the 18th century, because it had so much rich and fertile soil.

In analyses of soil structure interaction (SSI), two-degrees-of-freedom lumped-parameters model is often used to simplify the soil.

The waters scoured off the soft, windblown soil near the surface and eventually reached bedrock, the hardened lava of the Columbia Plateau.

Spray the garden with the hose, making the soil nice and wet. Enjoy the winter months and get ready to plant in the spring.

The shield tail brush is an important accessory in soft soil tunnel shield device, and is often used in the tunnel construction.

To that, the boss shows him a handful of red soil and reminds him that the soil represents his own identity as a son of Africa.

Before my eyes was the dark and red soil under the sun.

"Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God. " Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

If there were a real carbon price, farmers would think of their fields in terms of the carbon embodied in crops and soil.

drainage occurs in a surface soil layer, with limited thickness and with high hydraulic conductivity due to its macro porosity.

I wish to turn into a lamb, forever inseparable from you, smell you smell the fresh grass, smell your scent of fresh soil.

From the perspective of engineering evaluation, the distribution form of soil parameter has no influence on reliability index.

In place of the great trees which had been growing there for centuries, patches of green had begun to appear in the blackened soil.

He said: "He says: A heifer not trained to till the soil or water the fields; sound and without blemish. "

Within a few days, green sprouts push up through the soil and produce a green flush of grass.

Soil liquefaction is the process by which the strength or stiffness of soil is weakened by an event like the shaking of an earthquake.

The highly sensitive radio tracer technique is often used to follow tagged synthetic soil ingredients.

As for the meeting, first the Parthian dined with Gaius upon the Roman bank, and later Gaius supped with the king on the soil of the enemy.

The girl said she feels no need to eat normal food now that she has discovered how much she likes to eat soil.

Test results of Qiantang River silt in Hangzhou show that the critical hydraulic gradient of the silt differs from that of sandy soil.

Defective food is often a result of horrendous industrial pollution that has seeped into the water and soil.

You can use a seed tray to start the seeds indoors. The container should be deep enough to hold at least 3 centimeters of soil.

The soil failed to reach the instrument and scientists said Saturday they will devote a few days to trying to determine the cause.

But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.

The pottery after ising with the mud(glue soil) model to dry in the air burns out with the fire of, is the crystallize of mire and fire.

It is preferable to use ground water that has passed through the natural filter of the soil than to collect water from the surface.

A soil on which water stands for more than a week after a heavy rain is considered unfit for fruit growing.

Buried in the soil of the small Chlorophytum it will grow fast root, if you give it a little water, it is more vigorous president.

The soil and water, let himself in the possession of a muddy, this has been used to direct the archaeologists eyes staring at his hands.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

Still widely used, this electronic nose is able to sniff out a few parts per trillion of chemicals found in the soil, water or air.

Don't, Angel, be so anxious about a mere child of the soil! ' said his mother.

The container should be deep enough to hold at least three centimeters of soil.

They were also anxious to use chemical fertilizers to make up for soil deterioration -- which in turn created a vicious circle, he said.

I planted it in the soil and it came back to life. It was alive all the time when I was there, even though it had no roots at all.

Like the Australian mistletoe tree, crowned with flaming orange bloom, we do not think of overturning the soil and contemplating our roots.

Arsenic enters Bangladeshi drinking water from soil near the surface rather than deep underground as thought, say researchers.

or sometimes the frozen soil took a piece of steel out of a plowshare, or a plow got set in the furrow and had to be cut out.

They used it to fertilize soil, and the resear3chers have found that this soil is still some of the richest and most fertile in the world.

Another flow of environmental refugees comes from Haiti, where the land is denuded of vegetation and the soil is washing into the sea.

There was no gold in the Goose's feed, of course, nor any gold in the soil to speak of. A search of the grounds revealed nothing.

They dug until they had turned up the soil from one end of the orchard to the other, round the tree-roots and between them.

But when he got to the ridge, the plants were still there, the soil around them undisturbed.

And then strong soil is waiting for you, where you can stand steadily without trying to keep your balance.

Buried Cable A cable installed under the surface of the ground in such a manner that it cannot be removed without disturbing the soil.

Soil contamination is one of the important national and global environmental problems and waits to be remediated by innovatory technology.

For the best results, carrots should be grown in sandy soil that does not hold water for a long time. The soil also should have no rocks.

Soil three-phase structure distance (STPSD) between the ideal 3-phase condition and that of a given soil was calculated in 2-D space.

With plants in place and seed banks built up in the soil, such a greening might continue unassisted.

During the brief summer, a few feet (about a meter) of soil thaw at the surface.

Recycled food organics are composted to produce a valuable soil conditioner product to improve the health and productivity of our soils.

Finally, by means of this model, the process and phenomena of the soil liquefaction is explained in the light of soil frame failure.

Another flow of environmental refugees comes from Haiti, where the land is denuded of vegetation and the soil os washing into the sea.

I hope all the kids have such a wonderful soul, so the responsibility from an early age grow up in such fertile soil.

To determine if your soil is sandy or not, take a handful of moistened soil and roll it into a ball.

If there had not been a hard layer of rock beneath the soil.

For some people, the road to immediate satisfaction is laid with sod. A piece of sod has grass on the top and soil on the bottom.

It was a flowering out of feelings which had been withering in dry and almost barren soil for many years.

The next evening I walked to Joe's house. He was in the garden, tilling the soil, he watched me warily as I walked up.

The main reason for this seems to be the slow percolation rate of the local soil.

Extreme rainfall induced serious soil erosion and a great deal of fallen trees, and produced slope debris flow in many places.

A crisis team and a group of specialized firefighters were dispatched to take air and soil samples, he said.

Brick and tile better than the mechanical properties of soil, materials, and easy to manufacture.

Pottery drum, also known as drum soil, clay is fired into the dark box, and then cast made of animal leather.

Peasant is often as simple and pure as the soil, and work hard.

"The top 20cm of soil is all that stands between us and extinction, " he told the Guardian.

I want to see what I can do with seed, soil, sunshine and rain to turn them into the building blocks of a productive life.

It had been planted in good soil by abundant water so that it would produce branches, bear fruit and become a splendid vine.

If there had not been a hard layer of rock beneath the soil, they would have completed the job in a few hours.

Poland likewise was one of two countries in eastern Europe willing to have missiles planted on its soil, pointing over Russian territory.

The killers threw him into a ditch and covered his body with a thin layer of soil in an attempt to hide the body.

If buildings sprang up suddenly out of the ground like mushrooms, their rooftops would be covered with a layer of soil and plants.

Clean floor drain outlets at least once a week to prevent putrid air and insects in the soil pipes from entering the premises.

The mud drying in the sheets the next morning was black, more like the soil near the cabin than the red clay of her first grave.

also known as a lateral, leach field or soil absorption field, is most commonly used for effluent treatment.

Reduction of contact area between cohesive soil and the surface of dredging tools is able to decrease soil adhesion and cutting resistance.

Use the back of the rake to tamp down the soil and lightly rake the surface once more.

The model is only suitable to isotropic elastic soil, but the soil stratum in real engineering site is always layered and anisotropic one.

Deep down there in the recesses of the soil , the great heart throbbed once more , thrilling with passion, vibrating with desire .

Buried in the soil, in a place I didn't expect many had ever visited, I found a series of old military buttons and a flintlock musket.

In the study of piles jacking in soil, cavity expansion method (CEM) in infinite space is usually used to simulate the expansion of piles.

The water and soil conservation programme shall be drawn up in accordance with the provisions of Article 18 of this Law.

and wedge-shaped bodies used for being wedged into soil are distributed at the bottom faces of the two brick bodies.

the oil field, with its derrick rising from the soil like a shunt to coax the earth's fossil fuel to the surface.

So the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden and made him cultivate the soil from which he had been formed.

She decided later it was base survival instinct that caused her to fling the seeds at the moist soil in the potato patch.

Heat, aridity, and bitter winter cold, mixed with a salty soil, had preserved them better than other mummies found around the world.

"It's as if you had a very large city in Champagne on the soil of the famous wine, " Mr Morel Journel bemoaned.

nature of the surface of different areas-rock outcrops, loose rock, fragments, soil-covered.

They saw two large holes where the bombs had torn through soil and reinforced concrete, to pierce what appeared to be an underground bunker.

Exposure of inner soil of the slope and appearance of new cracks on the slope are early signs of a landslide. Keep away from such slopes.

Plants seem to tolerate the high radiation levels found in the soil near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.

Near the top he stops at a collection of 10 rickety poles stuck into the soil, with corn sacks sagging between them.

Soon the equipage began to ascend to higher ground, and the wind grew keener with the change of level and soil.

20Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop--thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown.

Essentially it had done something very simple. We had put too much carbon in the soil in the form of compost.

Brick and tile has superior mechanical properties than the soil can be from local materials, yet easy to manufacture.

It is shown in the tests that the model is able to assess the stress - strain relationship on unsaturated soil of different water contents.

Two or three plantings a year are normal, given the steady water supply, constant sun and rich soil.

Then in the beginning of October it begins to fall, leaving the land saturated with water and covered with a layer of rich, Black soil.

The openness and pluralism of the city life had no doubt offered indispensable soil for the diversity and secularization of social culture.

That sort of wool reached its peak out on the black- soil plains of northwest New South Wales and southwest Queensland .

and the serene content of men living close to the soil. and i should pray for the glory of a colorful sunset.

it was a calm in the tree, its roots deep headlong into the soil, despite the wind and rain, proud of the cold welcome Cream Gel.

When slope gradient and soil surface hydrological condition had not change, runoff increased with increasing of rainfall intensity.

Should you try to cultivate a clump of nettles, and they don't do well, your soil is likely to be at the heart of the problem.

Fall the organic fertilizer into container , sprinkle the soil until the water can permeate through the bottom of the container .

Line the base of each pot with some of these fragments - they let water drain out the hole in the base without carrying away the soil.

The businessman said numerous beautiful trees had been ripped out of the soil and scattered, like weeds in a garden.

Twigs with bud was prone to take root, soil medium and twigs must be disinfected. Disinfection was more important when cut in sand.

At this time, as long as you tried to fold the seedlings buried in soil or water bottle , it will be able to grow up.

Together, they have mapped the surface in unprecedented detail, cracked open rocks, sniffed the atmosphere and dug down into the soil.

Most people do not think of Earth as a red planet, but much of the continental crust is red. Soil and vegetation hide this native hue.

The effect of composite soil nailing is compared with that of general soil nailing by actual trail and observation.

The seed had germinated; yet the boy had not allowed it to maintain contact with the soil, take root , and obtain nutrients. So, it died.

The word plastic refers to the ability of the soil to be molded into various shapes without breaking up.

Our original explanation , that the soil near the surface is drier , is most likely correct .

Most of the human food is from the soil, Since the beginning of the human birth, the soil has become the material basis of human survival.

If astronauts were to visit this crater, they might be able to use eight wheelbarrows of soil to melt 10 to 13 gallons of water.

If true, the signal might be explainable by hydrogen flowing out from the Sun and interacting with oxygen in the lunar soil.

He said more research into the behaviour and ecological effects of nanoparticles in soil is needed to inform environmental policy.

In deeper soil with lower organic carbon, however, the adsorption seems to be nonlinear.

Organic matter is invaluable as an addition to any soil, whether applied as manure, as a cover crop, or as a soil - improving crop.

Other controls include turning over the soil, pulling the weeds or covering them with mulch made of wood, garden waste or other material.

The geography is important because the grapes that grow out of that mineral-rich soil are left with abundant acidity and a focused purity.

Like the ancient Greeks, its inhabitants turned their backs on their rocky soil, venturing out to fish and trade with distant shores.

To put it another way, he said, about 16 ounces of water might be present for every 1, 000 pounds of surface soil near the moon's poles.

Her torso, outlined in light, was like the trunk of a cypress tree just entering the soil.

The general concept of biotechnological use of soil micro-organisms to degrade recalcitrant molecules is much older and widely exploited.

Thus we see that the amount of fines present in a soil is a poor indicator of what the soil behavior may be like.

The harder the soil is, the more similar the motion of foundation is to that of free field.

The shear wave velocity in soils was the main parameter generally used in soil mechanics researches and geotechnical engineering practices.

Soil columns are used for the dynamic study of the cationic surface activator's effect on clay for intercepting water borne oil.

Adsorbed pesticide is in equilibrium with that dissolved in the water film around the soil particle .

Out of consideration of these circumstances, I intended the design of soil nailing development program to do something.

The invention relates to a soil amendment for phosphorus source pollution of a farmland and a using method thereof.

There is a serous void in understanding Carbon Trading. The point missed, the only globally assets are soil water vegetation air.

The IAEA said there appeared to be high levels of contamination in the soil and vegetation in the Fukushima prefecture.

After a systematic consideration, it might be possible to come up with an economical, practical and efficient soil washing system.

Within a few days, Phoenix extended a robotic arm, dug a shallow trench, and scooped up a soil sample.

If I push my way through the hard soil above me I may hurt my young sprouts. . . what if I let my buds open and a snail wants to eat them?

If so, was it a genetically engineered bioterrorism strain, or a strain that normally lives in the soil?

Deforestation has traditionally been a major problem for farmers. Few trees remain to protect soil from floods, droughts and severe storms.

In the Midwest much of the wind erosion occurs in winter when the ground is frozen, but the upper most soil layer is dry and loose.

The method can be used for measuring the vertical saturation permeability coefficient of the soil outdoors quickly and accurately.

It was concluded that geocell was more effective to control the settlement of soft soil ground in comparison with other materials.

Planter - Put pebbles in the bottom of a small jar, then fill with potting soil. Plant herb or flower seeds, and put in the windowsill.

In a marsh, the surface water can sink slowly down through the soil into the rock below.

Earthworms are ideal "soil detectives" : their presence can act as a reliable indicator to the general health of the soil.

Do water and soil conservation work good, protect and improve our ecological environment is one of our long-term basic national policy.

How have soil temperatures been affected by the surface temperature and precipitation in the Eurasian continent ?

Soil phosphorus as agricultural non-point source pollution is one of the main factors which led to water pollution.

Some of the more important components are: soil, atmosphere, radiation from the sun, water, and living organisms.

Track disease probability and soil moisture levels within your vine root zone at a fraction of the cost of a standard weather station.

This crooked and narrow road built with stone and soil joins the important traffic channels of every county in Sichuan and Tibet.

Huge areas which were once covered with forest have turned into a treeless waste where the soil is exactly like broken-up brick.

The Great Green Wall is used to stop the wind from blowing away the soil.

Friendship with Iran has soured after Turkey agreed to let NATO deploy parts of its missile shield on Turkish soil.

Large earthquake-induced rock avalanches , soil avalanches , and underwater landslides can be very destructive.

Granular material is the main material of embankment dams and is one of the major study objectives of soil mechanics.

One of its ideas is to have Mexican doctors and hospitals provide care on Mexican soil for patients from the north.

Did you know that Kona beans thrive in the dark volcanic soil, sunny mornings and cloudy afternoons of Hawaii?

Root hairs feed from the surface particles, therefore the internal surface area has a great influence on plant food in the soil.

Soil adsorption-desorption processes controlled the concentration of heavy metal ions, which was one of the main chemical processes.

Common soil would not do, because it's not sticky enough, and easy to break.

Sense of domination by imperial-minded people, like the soil, like the seeds of hooliganism.

The ecological risk of heavy metals in the soil lies in the fact that they enter the body through the food chain and health hazards.

eluvium: Residual deposits of soil, dust, and rock particles produced by the action of the wind.

eaten by animals, the wind blows the top soil away and the land becomes a desert.

Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down and , as it does so, poisonous materials are released into the water and soil.

Would like to see that purple petals as soon as possible, also diligent manner to loosen the soil fertilizing watering.

The soil water characteristic curve is one of major hydraulic parameters, and its measurement is a basic teaching experiment in hydrology.

climate and soil determine the general appearance of a forest.

He battled for three years with the wind and the cold and the soil before he admitted he was wrong .

Pieces of lemon were placed on soil at different places and after a few days fungal growth appeared in each piece of lemon.

Tiny plant organisms transport carbon from the air into soil and lower into the sea bottom, to be submerged and fossilized into oil.

It would be greatly meaningful that if the quantitative and spatial distribution of soil temperature and moisture can be detected quickly.

He said one example these (is) genetically changed crops that will grow in extreme temperatures, dry conditions or poor soil.

Take out as much of the soil as you can with the seedlings. Plant them in the ground in a hole that is bigger than the lettuce roots.

There is no soil where this notion cannot take root, just as every democracy reflects the uniqueness of a nation.

Due to the particularity of frozen soil, the stability of it is always the key concerns.

The length of short pile is decided by soft soil strength of short pile tip in terms of analysis on bearing capacity of short pile.

Soil erosion in Three Gorges Reservoir Region and its neighbour area has been a great threat.

The results of PCA indicated that soil salinity was one of the most important factors affecting the community distribution.

The wind roar, scooped up the wheezing frozen soil, despite the old news.

Chopin's last request was that the Polish soil in the silver goblet be sprinkled over his grave.

They were then transplanted to enriched soil, where they have continued to grow, now several inches high or more.

The first is to measure the water content of soil across the planet every three days to a depth of up to 2m.

Put forward a concept of macro-cohesive strength, witch could be obtained by back-analysis of the auto stability of the sandy pebble soil.

I don't think the US will see China as a threat to its soil, but I do think it may see China as a threat to her regional interests.

Work the soil to remove wheats , but weeds. But do not work the soil too deeply or you could damage the tomato plants.

Also, the tree growth and the soil enzyme activity of mixed stand were all better than that of the pure stands.

But he said that the economic feasibility of using Gorn 19 would need to be investigated, as would its long-term effects on the soil.

A group of us remained on Argentine soil to put the villa back in order and return the half-dozen or so rented cars.

It is estimated that in one year fifty thousand earthworms carry about eighteen tons of the fine soil to the surface of an acre of land.

Besides, the rise of the salt content of irrigated water will increase salt content of the surface soil remarkably.

When you slide the screen up to reveal the thumb keyboard, there's no spring-assisted snap; it drags like a plow through soil.

Rising temperature that unfroze the soil after a severe winter was blamed for the frequent sandstorms this year, he said.

This soil is found at the sites of ancient settlements, but it does not appear to be an accidental consequence of settlement.

Indoor composting can be a bit tricky, as the odors associated with the process can, well, soil the mood.

There was more bad news from the Fukushima plant today, as scientists confirmed they had found Plutonium in nearby soil.

These chemicals, she knew, do not break down in soil.

Like the soil in a garden, an area of ignorance can be transformed by cultivating seeds of knowledge.

A fine silty soil, common in the southern and western United States, that forms an unusually sticky mud when wet.

Plants are full of natural toxins, so the goal was to find microorganisms in soil capable of breaking down certain of those chemicals.

They were trying to remove harmful substances from the soil.

The straw incorporation can improve soil fertility of wheat system, but has no obvious effect to soil fertility office system.

Mr Roh, a son of the soil who had taught himself well enough to get through South Korea's ferocious bar exams, was thought to be different.

Granite residual soil has its specific characteristics . Its engineering category has not been solved so far.

shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States.

However, its net flux was found to be into the soil, probably due to competing production and consumption processes within the soil.

The vertical variation was that the soil moisture content of cultivate layer was very little, change considerable fast.

He said one example is genetically changed crops that will grow in extreme temperature, dry conditions or poor soil.

The magnitude of the damage and that of the cosmic ray's effect on soil formation are calculated preliminarily.

His wife, Nancy Chu, helped establish the center where refugees learned handicrafts so they could make a living on Indian soil.

The main topic is to make a study on the reliability and invalidity mechanism of traversing pipelines in case of soil liquefaction.

Prosecutors said that they ordered Zhang Yaoxiong to leave the excavated soil on a plot of land next to the building.

Acting as the main heat source of soil-source heat pump systems, soil thermal energy has been a cynosure of researchers.

The company founded in 2004, is with the national promotion with fat project implementation of soil testing all these five years of growth.

I hand a loose piece of rotten soil with the shell off the ground and just dissolve as one of the earth.

A pile-driver is a mechanical device used to drive piles into soil to provide foundation support for buildings or other structures.

Hence the connotation of uplifted layers of soil, interwoven with one another, which was the inspiration for the form of the house.

of PE gas pipeline is an important design parameter, and depends on the soil temperature around the buried pipeline.

The genus Acanthamoeba includes species of free-living soil and water ameba that have been implicated in a small number of human diseases.

And on his left a beaming Dalai Lama, thankful to be back on Chinese soil once more after an exile of nearly 50 years.

Soil permeation characteristics is one of the important parameters determining the watering performance of furrow irrigation.

The London Stock Exchange, owner of a thriving retail-bond exchange in Italy, has mooted plans for a similar platform on its home soil.

This results can be used for monitoring and forecasting of soil and water loss as well as plan of soil and water conservation.

As the Dutch master prepared for his last competitive appearance on English soil, the crowd rose to give him a standing ovation.

Sanjiang Plain, Heilongjiang, China. The green fields nurtured by the dark soil of the 3 Northeast Provinces.

The only two large groups that have actually had to take family names while on our soil are the Indians and the Negroes.

The contents of organic matter, total nutrient and available nutrient in fencing soil from Stipa grandis grassland were all increased.

Not believing him, the guard checked the sacks and, once again, he found nothing but soil.

Although I would love them in a meadow they need moister soil than I can give them.

Geogrid reinforcement can improve maximal compressive stress distribution, and decrease shear stress on the surface of soil foundation.

Experts say , warm days , cool nights and a medium soil temperature are the best conditions for growing carrots that taste great .

Among the treatments, the utilization ratios of carbon sources by drab soil microbe had a little difference.

The ant is one of the superior groups of huge soil animals in Kaifeng. The number of ant species is various and the ant exits in many areas.

For different soil depths, the amplitude of temperature daily variation can be approximated as an exponential function of the depth.

Its compression curve is similar to that of over consolidated soil.

The landslides are bright streams of exposed earth that contrast with the dark green plants and tan soil around them.

Precipitation is one of the important factors affecting the result of soil gas mercurometric survey.

Ya? l: Hey Don, did you know that soil deterioration is one of the main contributors to global warming?

The soil water and thermal conditions could be improved by the plastic mulching. The growth and development of maize were improved as well.

The problem was one of liquefaction of the sandy soil.